Quotes About CEO

I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

You're supposed to have a passionate purpose as a CEO.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.

Any CEO would want to know what people say about his product anywhere in the world.

I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.

As the CEO of a global company I think countries are foregoing opportunities by having cabotage rules.

I couldn't possibly be any more open or public about my role as CEO at Patreon.

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It's an extremely important part of what I am.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Is the CEO allocating capital in a rational way that will enhance the company's long-term value? Is the company underpaying its employees, mistreating its suppliers, violating its customers' trust, or engaging in any other shortsighted behavior that could jeopardize its eventual greatness?

One of my top priorities as CEO was to eradicate the BS and reinvent planning. Every year, starting in 2003, I required teams presenting to me to write a three-to-four-page executive summary that highlighted the basic plan. That document would allow us to cut through the pages of obfuscating charts and bullet points.

In my first three years as CEO, we wound up changing out about half of my staff members, replacing them with leaders who bought in strongly to One Honeywell.

Sidney Harman, another highly successful CEO who was largely self-educated (he co-founded Harman Kardon), expressed the point well in his memoir, Mind Your Own Business: "Writing is not the simple transfer of fully formed intellectual inventory from brain to paper… Writing is discovery. It is, as Dylan Thomas said, 'the blank page on which I read my mind.

It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.